Czerneda's Quotes

#1. Julie Czerneda's inner editor says, 'One day her expectations will meet reality and actually get along.

Julie E. Czerneda

#2. Curiosity's primal. Our senses scan our surroundings, alerting us most urgently about sudden change. Useful, that. Change can mean opportunity. It can mean danger. Finding lunch or being lunch. We're hard-wired to notice the unexpected, then take action.

Julie Czerneda

#3. I lose things. I write things and they disappear from my desk, my life. I move a lot. I wanted to gather them and put them under one roof, under one cover, so I could document my life in a series of snapshots.

Sandra Cisneros

#4. I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.

Jim Parsons

#5. I don't care what your nose says! The last time you smelled half-blood, it turned out to be a meatloaf sandwich!"
"Meatloaf sandwiches are good! But this is a half-blood scent, I swear. They are on board!"
"Bah, your brain isn't on board!

Rick Riordan

#6. Result-oriented, low-tech, low-cost, shamanic medicine, uses natural elements, spirit, and the healing power of a caring community, as practiced by indigenous societies for millennia.

Itzhak Beery

#7. I saw you, and that's all it took. Sometimes I can't breathe, I love you so much.

J.D. Robb

#8. Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.

Amedeo Modigliani

#9. Paris is a danger for people like me. We spend our rent money in Paris on clothes.

Bridget Kelly

#10. Curiosity, fed by feats of imagination, can only grow

Julie Czerneda

#11. [f]or most people, construction is tight, concentrated, bunchy, whereas vandalism offers release; you have to be quite an artist to give positive expression to abandon.

Lionel Shriver

#12. It dims the brightest spirit, to stare into the dark.

Julie E. Czerneda